Campi Flegrei, the Commissioner arrives.Musumeci:“Enough abuse, the Region and Municipalities have turned the other way”

"Twenty million to repair damaged houses and 440 for public housing.Not even a penny for illegal homes and second homes"

ROME – “The The government does not intend to spend any money on illegal homes or second homes“.“This government is giving more than it had a duty to give.Campi Flegrei is one of the most complex and dangerous volcanoes in the world."And “as the preparatory and investigative work progresses, they emerge very serious responsibilities, which are remote or less remote, which are omissive and commissive, and involve all territorial bodies, starting from the Campania Region and the municipalities affected by the bradyseismic risk, therefore a part of the Municipality of Naples and the municipalities of Pozzuoli and Bacoli".Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said this at a press conference at Palazzo Chigi, at the end of the Council of Ministers.The Campi Flegrei are a very hot topic for the government.Which announces the arrival of a Commissioner within 15 days.

“The urban development that has been authorized over the years – he says – appears increasingly unreasonable, chaotic and disorderly.The looming dangers of that area were never taken into account. Illegal construction is widespread, those who were supposed to monitor did not do so and looked the other way.Serious shortcomings persist in municipal civil protection prevention plans.We are verifying the activity carried out and that which remains to be carried out by the pro tempore president of the Region in his capacity as commissioner appointed for infrastructure following the serious bradyseismic event of the early 1980s."

“Interventions are planned on public buildings and public road mobility infrastructures, on school buildings, essential services, water networks, sewerage and communication services. We have foreseen approximately 440 million for public interventions“, continues Musumeci.“For the private construction sector which was compromised by the earthquake of May 20th and which led to a series of eviction orders, and therefore the incapacity of around 350-400 buildings, bringing a thousand people out of their homes, we are intervening for these six months with 20 million euros.We do not limit ourselves to repairing the damage caused by the earthquake, but we plan to redevelop the property:having been damaged by a modest earthquake, magnitude 4.4, is confirmation that that building could not withstand a more powerful earthquake."

For the Campi Flegrei “we foresee – he adds – an adequate redevelopment and anti-seismic adaptation intervention.The 20 million are for this year, let's see in the meantime what remains to be achieved and in the budget law at the end of the year we will provide other resources for next year.We plan to develop interventions at least over a three-year period starting from 2024.For us, the important thing at this moment is to allow as many families as possible to return to their homes."

“As regards the management of the work, which is both technical and administrative, we thought that it cannot be done by individual Municipalities, by the Region or by the Civil Protection department or Casa Italia. We thought of an extraordinary commissioner, who will be appointed on my proposal by decree of the President of the Council of Ministers within 15 days of the publication of the provision".

“With the decree law on the Campi Flegrei, ed., the ban on new constructions for civilian homes comes into force.Establishments, factories and workplaces are excluded."“In that area there is one of the highest densities that can be conceived on an active volcano, on which two other risks converge, the seismic one and the bradyseismic one”.

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